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So. Next week is my last class until september we get our certificates that day and pass the class...Thats the plan at least.
We planned the ending right up to everything that we'd cover and do and just recognize if theres stuff left undone or unsaid and at first I thought this was all silly. But truthfully when you think about it, most endings are out of our control, relationships end, people die, we have to move house, we loose a job. Endings often come abruptly and unexpectedly and we're completely out of our depth and dragged along without any say.
The usual way I deal with endings is. if i know one is coming, I'll check out early. I'll just withdraw from the situation before the actual ending so as to protect myself from feeling..well...anything. Sometimes I may even make an excuse and not even turn up physically let alone mentally. I'm a bit of a coward like that. So to be able to plan the ending of this group/class feels like a really privileged thing to do, to be able to experience an ending in such a controlled and gentle way is really gonna feel strange and different.
Other things that may or may not end.
As everyone knows the rules of FA are being tightened and the grace period for galleries to be cleaned up comes to an end tomoro. I havent really done any housekeeping. I don't think any of my stuff really falls into the categories that folk are worrying about, but if I do get banned for whatever reason I don't actually have anywhere I'm posting any of my comics other than at patreon
https://www.patreon.com/squiggle You can see the same updates on patreon as you can on FA for the $1 tier so when pages are posted on FA they become unlocked on patreon at the lowest tier.
Will I post my comics other places....Truthfully I don't really know of anywhere else they'd be welcome. I am not going to inkbunny and twitter is pointless. I hate discord with a passion and im actually not sure how to set up an art only posting thingy on telegram and it wouldnt link the pages so that would just irritate me. SO if i go down here I will maybe think of building my own site for hosting my comics. I've run and built websites before so I will probably just do that truthfully.
IM trying to build a backlog of comic pages and hording a bunch of sketched pages for various comics. I really need to build up a vault of stuff so i can give myself some time to finish recolouring marellis out of the comic. that should all be finished in the next couple of weeks.
Anyway thats me mostly up to date mostly. Hope stuff is okay with you there.
We planned the ending right up to everything that we'd cover and do and just recognize if theres stuff left undone or unsaid and at first I thought this was all silly. But truthfully when you think about it, most endings are out of our control, relationships end, people die, we have to move house, we loose a job. Endings often come abruptly and unexpectedly and we're completely out of our depth and dragged along without any say.
The usual way I deal with endings is. if i know one is coming, I'll check out early. I'll just withdraw from the situation before the actual ending so as to protect myself from feeling..well...anything. Sometimes I may even make an excuse and not even turn up physically let alone mentally. I'm a bit of a coward like that. So to be able to plan the ending of this group/class feels like a really privileged thing to do, to be able to experience an ending in such a controlled and gentle way is really gonna feel strange and different.
Other things that may or may not end.
As everyone knows the rules of FA are being tightened and the grace period for galleries to be cleaned up comes to an end tomoro. I havent really done any housekeeping. I don't think any of my stuff really falls into the categories that folk are worrying about, but if I do get banned for whatever reason I don't actually have anywhere I'm posting any of my comics other than at patreon
https://www.patreon.com/squiggle You can see the same updates on patreon as you can on FA for the $1 tier so when pages are posted on FA they become unlocked on patreon at the lowest tier.
Will I post my comics other places....Truthfully I don't really know of anywhere else they'd be welcome. I am not going to inkbunny and twitter is pointless. I hate discord with a passion and im actually not sure how to set up an art only posting thingy on telegram and it wouldnt link the pages so that would just irritate me. SO if i go down here I will maybe think of building my own site for hosting my comics. I've run and built websites before so I will probably just do that truthfully.
IM trying to build a backlog of comic pages and hording a bunch of sketched pages for various comics. I really need to build up a vault of stuff so i can give myself some time to finish recolouring marellis out of the comic. that should all be finished in the next couple of weeks.
Anyway thats me mostly up to date mostly. Hope stuff is okay with you there.
Also, fo FA: I think it should be alright. I know a lot of people in the community have been reaching out to the staff and are fighting for our place here, but if worse comes to worse, me and many others will happily follow wherever You end up going! <3 ^^
As for FA banning you? They'll be crazy to even think about it! ^^
Making your own site would be better, it reminds me of how much I missed babyfur.me :U
I know one babyfur artist posts on yiffer, that site has the entire comic on one long scrollable page. The site is home to alot of slice of life fur comics so your comic would fit in quite well imo.
I hope it wouldn't be too much extra work, but I'd love to see what sort of website you create plus that'd give you so much potential creative control of it. You could have Star and Martin playing hide and seek in between the content on the webpages xD. Okay, it sounds like that'd require a lot of animating and programming and work, but you could do a lot of fun and cute and silly little things with it if you wanted
You're on the home stretch for your class! You did (and are doing, it's not over yet!) an awesome job with it :D
for anyone not in the know: the (so called) Fediverse is a network of loosely interconnected servers with various different services that communicate over the activitypub protocol.
it's possible to use an account on any server to follow content from any other server/service.
(e.g. a Mastodon (microblogging) account can be used to comment on threads in a Lemmy (reddit like) or image submissions in a Pixelfed instance. and of course the same account can be used to subscribe to the feed of any other service.)
of course it's also possible (and recommended) to run your own instance of whatever service you choose.
i found a list of services here: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/deli.....fediverse-apps
sorry for gushing but freeing the world from the clutches of corporate "walled garden" services is important. especially for groups with special interests that are perceived as icky in the eyes of the general public.
big platforms need advertisement money to survive. that's why they all eventually see the need to drop us.
i've found the Fediverse just recently and found a lot of like minded kittens/weirdos like me.
Generally I'd say if you can do some html and a little bit of css itd make it at least a good fall back. Neocities as far as I know allows for that as long as you tag it :)
And I'm always a fan of comic sites honestly, its my favorite form of media